God Offal Politicians? On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 10:57 AM, Jim Devine <[email protected]> wrote:
> from SLATE: > > Poll: Most Don't Know What "GOP" Stands For > In survey, 35 percent guess "Government of the People." > By Will Oremus | Posted Monday, Oct. 3, 2011, at 5:25 PM ET > > Do you know what GOP stands for? It’s not a trick question, though > apparently it is a tricky question for the majority of Americans. > > In a 60 Minutes/Vanity Fair poll released Sunday, just 45 percent > correctly answered a multiple-choice question about the meaning of the > widely used acronym for the Republican Party. (For the record, it’s > "Grand Old Party.") > > More than a third guessed "Government of the People," while a few > jokesters (one hopes) opted for "Grumpy Old People," "God’s Own > Party," or "Gauntlet of Power." Fewer than one in 10 had the modesty > to select "Don’t know." [I thought that it was "Gross Orange People," > after John Boehner.] > > Members of the GOP were marginally more likely to know what it means, > with 51 percent of Republicans getting the right answer. Just 38 > percent of Dems—er, Democrats—got it, though that may be partly > because 9 percent of them opted for "Grumpy Old People." > > Whether the poll proves that Americans are idiots or that the media > and political elite are out of touch probably depends on whether you > knew the answer. Few headline writers can resist using the > three-letter acronym as shorthand for Republicans, though the Wall > Street Journal is a prominent exception: It stopped using GOP in 2002 > for this very reason. (The New York Times’ William Safire weighed in > with a column about the decision shortly thereafter.) For its part, > the Republican National Committee houses its official website at > www.GOP.com. ... > > -- > Jim Devine / "Segui il tuo corso, e lascia dir le genti." (Go your > own way and let people talk.) -- Karl, paraphrasing Dante. > _______________________________________________ > pen-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l > -- Sandwichman
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